Gluten Free and Vegetarian Cooking

Meal Plan Monday, January 24, 2011

Well, once again I was too ambitious last week and didn’t make anywhere near all the food I had planned. We ended up going out to dinner with friends one night at a new-to-us restaurant, The Outlook Cafe, in Rio Rancho. (Review forthcoming!) As well, we had our monthly celiac/gluten free potluck meeting, after which I am always stuffed to the gills from all the yummy food and usually don’t eat much the rest of the day! So, you’ll find that this week’s plan is just another iteration of last week’s plan. So it goes, right?

I was spying that one too, Wendy, it’s been bookmarked! Although my husband isn’t a huge fan of pesto for some reason…I just won’t call it that and he’ll like it just fine, me thinks!
We had the broccoli and cheese soup tonight. We liked it pretty well. I think it sat on the warm setting too long and there was a funky ‘crust’ on top when I got home that made me think I burned it. But I scraped it off and gave it to the chickens and it was all good. I did add some yukon gold potatoes to it to give it more body. And I pureed the entire thing at the end as my broccoli florets were fairly large and chunky. Try it out…

Ha! I want your cookbooks too! I have them wish-listed on Paperback Swap, but it looks like everyone likes them and isn’t giving them up so easily. Do you know Herbavoracious blog? I won the rice cooker cookbook from his publisher as I was one of his recipe testers recently. Fun!

Yes, creamy polenta is total comfort food, huh? Just like those bean fritters I saw over on your page recently. Something about them said comfort food to me too, probably because I rarely eat anything ‘fried’.

Yes, this week was going to be rougher than it has turned out so far, thankfully. I was recently diagnosed with thyroid issues and have been having tummy troubles so I was headed in for another intestinal endoscopy/biopsy today. Ugh. But when the thyroid came back super high, apparently that can cause tummy troubles too, we decided to wait on any more investigations there until we get the thyroid worked out. So I didn’t have to be knocked out and grumpy today!

But tomorrow and Thursday I get to have radioactive iodine pumped in me to check out the thyroid and see what’s going on. And thus I get to spend more hours at the hospital this week. Yucky. At least I have some good books to keep me company, and yummy food at home awaiting me! Thanks for your thoughts. They are appreciated!